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Hacked from ‘US servers’: Ecuador leader claims attacks on his private computer
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has accused the US of “systematic, high-tech” cyber-attacks on his private internet accounts and computers, the last of which was …
Is Shellshock a Feature, not a Bug?
The devastating Shellshock security flaw that was found in the open source Bourne Again Shell (Bash) UNIX shell highlights a major dilemma faced by …
Leaked documents expose secret contracts between NSA and tech companies
Internal National Security Agency documents published by the Intercept earlier this month provide powerful evidence of active collaboration by the large technology corporations with …
Google Has Received Nearly 145,000 Requests to Be ‘Forgotten’
Thousands of Europeans are scrambling to take advantage of a new legal right to force Google to delete search results about them. Since the …
The CIA Used Artificial Intelligence to Interrogate Its Own Agents in the 80s
The CIA has notoriously been, well, “innovative” in developing new interrogation techniques (if you consider waterboarding an innovation, at least). Newly declassified documents reveal …
IBM Brings Bare Metal Intel TXT Security to Cloud
IBM today announced that it is bringing Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) to its Softlayer cloud service. Intel’s TXT is a trust mechanism that …
NSA mines Facebook for connections, including Americans’ profiles
In addition to phone records and email logs, the National Security Agency uses Facebook and other social media profiles to create maps of social …
Snowden the ‘traitor’ looms over Pulitzers
New York (AFP) – Hero or traitor? America is still polarized over Edward Snowden and whether the newspapers that exposed the extent of NSA’s …
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